Quote from: Cargést on September 29, 2010, 11:34:06 AM

I've never seen any problem with making use of substances which cause desired effects, so long as the desired effects are a means to something more important.  Smoking weed is quite the enabler of a meditative state (indeed, that's what marijuana is used for by some Saddhus).  I prefer Salvia, since it's legal, faster, and probably less dangerous than the ever-so-slightly dangerous cannabis (which, in turn, is less dangerous than the really-pretty-dangerous alcohol).

Really? The one or two times I've tried Salvia I did not enjoy it at all. The high is extremely intense (though short lived); I could see someone who may be too gullible or naive doing something really terrible while on that stuff.

I don't think that is an issue, unless you are driving. It is totally incapacitating for it's brief duration, some people can't even stand up on the stuff. However I would say it could cause you some serious psychological damage if you already have existing anxiety issues or depression, then again - so will any drug.

My experience with salvia was particularly disturbing and basically scared me away from drugs for good.

Im interested in knowing what a live performance from Rotting Christ is like these days. I may have an opportunity to see them on their North American tour, but I am not sure the long journey would be worth it if they mostly play newer material.

Black Bitchery is pure fucking garbage. Fuck this band a thousand fold.

fuck fuck fuck fuck, ect


Profoundly simple trem'd inverted power chords placed at the most predictable intervals, witch then follow text book patterns. Laughingly obvious lack of content, sterile songs, blablalalablalba.

I don't need to go on, 100% of their popularity was due to how 'soooper XxgrimXx" the band members looked in their hoods and cloaks.

omg satan, sew edgy.

I think it's silly trying to intellectualize this. Most bands used "gore" as a theme because of a loss of what to include in the lyrics, same goes with the overtly "satanic" bands. Although I suppose a minority had some kind of conceptual purpose behind the gore, like Carcass (even though they were coming from a leftist and vegan direction - super homo).

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For a short period around the turn of the 1990s, however, the genre's compulsive need to outflank itself spiralled into genuine evil. The Californian quartet Slayer coined the loudest, fastest, ugliest sound to date, with one song, Angel of Death, relating the horrors of Josef Mengele's Auschwitz. In Norway, a small network of bands plunged headlong into Satanism, and torched some churches around Oslo. In 1993, Varg Vikernes, aka Burzum, murdered his main rival.

Metal had reached its furthest perimeter, and has since retreated a considerable distance.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/7974519/Is-heavy-metal-really-the-Devils-best-tune.html

Where do you go from there? Hmm.

say fuck it and finaly delve into classical?

What are your thoughts on Autopsy? I don´t see much disscusion on them around this site. Also thought on the new single?